I use davidloo tutorial and I wanna add some point from my experience.
1. sudo apt-get install git automake gnome-sharp2 mono-xsp4
2. git clone https://github.com/mono/monodevelop.git
3. cd monodevelop
4. ./configure –profile=stable
At this point I have error “No package ‘glade-sharp-2.0’ found.” and with ‘monodoc’ package.
The solution is to install that packages from synaptic.
apt-get install synaptic
Check this on synaptic and click Apply :
And run configure again.
4. ./configure –profile=stable
5. sudo make install
And now you have MonoDevelop 5.1 and .net 4.5.
Sunday morning 
Awesome, your guide really works.
Just a detail with this line ./configure –profile=stable the “–” is actually a “- -” (double dash, 2 dashes in a row) I think wordpress by some reason shows one dash instead of 2 dashes.
Thanks for your post, it really helped me.
http://monodevelop.com/download mentions doing
$ cd monodevelop
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
Thanks for your informative post. I’ve re-created with some updated/improved steps:
Thanks for your addition.
I wanna update my monodevelop to v5.7.
And since I build from git, I just fetch from github and build it.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1125968/force-git-to-overwrite-local-files-on-pull
During my installation I found problem with missing “referenceassemblies-pcl” package (error during “make”). Installing it using apt-get fixed the problem.
Not for me:
cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS”
./configure –profile=stable
….
configure: error: Package requirements (glib-sharp-2.0 >= 2.12.8) were not met:
No package ‘glib-sharp-2.0’ found
dpkg -l | grep libglade
ii libglade2-0:amd64 1:2.6.4-2 amd64 library to load .glade files at runtime
ii libglade2-dev:amd64 1:2.6.4-2 amd64 development files for libglade
ii libglade2.0-cil 2.12.10-5 amd64 CLI binding for the Glade libraries 2.6
marius@brlochin:~/FLEX/LEGO/monodevelop$
dpkg -l | grep monodoc
ii monodoc-base 3.2.8+dfsg-4ubuntu1.1 all shared MonoDoc binaries
ii monodoc-browser 2.11+git20131009.5b1ef35-1build1 all MonoDoc GTK+ based viewer
ii monodoc-gtk2.0-manual 2.12.26-0xamarin1+compat1 all compiled XML documentation for GTK# 2.10
ii monodoc-manual 3.2.8+dfsg-4ubuntu1.1 all compiled XML documentation from the Mono project